Archive – Middle Ages

London-based Auction house Baldwin’s has offered 101 of the rarest Henry III Pennies from the Brussels Hoard, a finding linked by its intriguing history to the auction house itself as two books now available from Baldwin’s explain.
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In 2013, the project “Money and the Church in Northern Europe 1000-1200: Practice, Morality and Thought” was initiated. Its coordinators are Svein Gullbekk, Oslo, und Giles Gasper, Durham. From November 23 to 25, 2011, they hosted a conference whose proceedings have now been released. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.
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